Copyright parameters are important to designers because when using someone else's work they need to know how they can use it and if they can even use. Also, copyright is important to protect a designer's own work from infringement.
Copyright can apply to images, content, intellectual property, and fonts. If you created it, it is considered copyrighted by you. Your permission is needed for others to use. If you post something online you can specify whether or not others can use it. You can delegate that it has some rights reserved and that they must attribute the it to you.
Fair use means that in some situations others can use your work without permission. Examples of these situations are educational purposes and using them in an article critiquing your work.
Everything you find online is not copyright free.
Sources: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/06/14/understanding-copyright-and-licenses/
Image downloaded from creative commons on October 2, 2012 created by PhotoMasterGreg http://www.flickr.com/photos/photomastergreg/3831379129/sizes/l/
No comments:
Post a Comment